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This man claims he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific

By Staff, Digital First Media and wire

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02/03/2014 03:32:53 PM EST

This man claims he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific

A man who washed ashore on the remote Marshall Islands last week may have one of the greatest tales ever of survival at sea.Jose Salvador Alvarenga, 37, told an official that he left the coast of Mexico in his 23-foot-long fiberglass fishing boat in late December 2012, and had been adrift since a storm blew him off course.Alvarenga says he had a teenager on his boat, but the boy died a few weeks after they got lost at sea because ...